ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction, Reality Television
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It"s the work that shapes the life, not vice versa. Hint of the future: future: that will be. Predictable, prescriptions, scheduled, foresee-able: l"avenir: that will come. The real future for derrida : l"avenir beyond le future, the other. Biographies: who have authority invest said authority to present the truth. The published work is a fixed life for centuries. The one who reads the text, a tiny paragraph, is more of a biographer than the one who knows the whole story. Speak of self as empirical being improper. Origin of deconstruction: to not naturalize what isn"t natural. To not assume that what is conditioned by history, etc. is natural: not an operation that supervenes outward from outside. Always already at work in the work. Always already contained, so only have to do memory work. Don"t want to accept/reject terms, leave question suspended for the moment.
